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President Trump escalated his rhetoric toward Tehran today, warning Iran to, quote, get moving or there won't be anything left. The threat lands against an already fragile backdrop — Iran's energy sector is entering what analysts describe as a new crisis phase, with oil stockpiles running dangerously low heading into peak summer demand. Supply disruption risk is real and priced accordingly in crude markets.
That geopolitical pressure feeds directly into the broader macro picture, where bond markets are already navigating a separate but significant threat. Japanese investors, the single largest foreign holders of U.S. government debt at roughly one trillion dollars in Treasuries, may be preparing to rotate capital back home. The Bank of Japan has been hiking rates steadily, and Japanese government bond yields have climbed to levels not seen in decades, making domestic fixed income genuinely competitive for the first time in a generation. If that repatriation accelerates, U.S. borrowing costs could move sharply higher at precisely the wrong moment — when the federal deficit leaves Washington with no room to absorb a yield spike.
Meanwhile, the box office is offering a rare bright note. The Michael Jackson biopic has now crossed seven hundred three million dollars globally, closing in on the all-time music biopic record set by Bohemian Rhapsody back in two thousand eighteen.
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